J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches Cologne, from the Rhine 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches Cologne, from the Rhine’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Sketches Cologne, from the Rhine 1835
D30762
Turner Bequest CCCIV 69 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W’ top centre towards right; ‘Mulin’ right centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has sketched aspects of Cologne, a city of many churches, from his boat on the Rhine (see also D19844, D30763, D30766, D30778; Turner Bequest CCXVI 147, CCCIV 70, 71a, 77a). The drawing inscribed ‘Mulin’ is a view of the nearby town of Mülheim, located a few moments downstream from Cologne. Mülheim’s Church of St Clemens is depicted at bottom left, on the riverbank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches Cologne, from the Rhine 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-cologne-from-the-rhine-r1187137, accessed 26 April 2024.